After Protests, India Clarifies
Order to Block Blogs

By

Eric Bellman and

Binny Sabharwal

Updated July 20, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET

MUMBAI, India -- The Indian government told the country's Internet-service providers to cease blocking popular sites full of Web logs after attempts to restrict access to the sites spurred protests from the online community.

In a meeting yesterday, India's Department of Telecommunications clarified that the Internet-service providers have to block access only to specific blogs within the sites -- not entire sites that contain blogs,...